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F01A F-18 Automated Maintenance Environment Operator

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

The F-18 Automated Maintenance Environment Operator performs operator, data entry, and retrieval functions and connects individual stations while analyzing and correcting software, hardware, and data entry errors. This operator transmits and receives data electronically, prepares and interprets management reports, and creates archives, backups, and data saves for deployments and detachment operations.

Core Skills

  • Network fault isolation across connected stations
  • Software, hardware, and data-entry error correction
  • Deployment data backups and archive creation
  • Data extraction and management report interpretation

Civilian Career Paths

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Computer Network Support Specialists

Networking between maintenance-system stations, correcting hardware and software errors, and backing up data transfer directly to network troubleshooting and support.

How to prepare: Build a small Windows or Linux network lab and document how you diagnose connection failures and back up network data.

What the civilian work involves
  • Back up network data.
  • Identify the causes of networking problems, using diagnostic testing software and equipment.
  • Document network support activities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Windows Server

Network and Computer Systems Administrators

Maintaining station connectivity, resolving system errors, and creating deployment backups provide a foundation for broader network and systems administration.

How to prepare: Create a Linux or Active Directory lab to practice system configuration, access administration, and recovery from a backup, extending beyond the verified operator duties.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
  • Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Bash

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC F01A

    [1] NEC entry "F01A - F-18 Automated Maintenance Environment Operator"; cached text line 4982; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Network fault isolation across connected stations, Software, hardware, and data-entry error correction, Deployment data backups and archive creation, Data extraction and management report interpretation, Computer Network Support Specialists (O*NET 15-1231.00), Network and Computer Systems Administrators (O*NET 15-1244.00)

  2. O*NET: Computer Network Support Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Computer Network Support Specialists (O*NET 15-1231.00)

  3. O*NET: Network and Computer Systems Administrators

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Network and Computer Systems Administrators (O*NET 15-1244.00)

Defense contractor jobs for F01A

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